For churches, missions, and faith-based nonprofits
Your ministry carries the message. It deserves a website that looks like the truth: designed, written, and engineered to the standard of a build that costs thousands. We do the entire thing for $199 a year, and it’s live in days.
Seven questions and your current web address. Nobody’s going to call you. We read it and write back within two business days.
A church plant in a school cafeteria and a church with a communications director are doing the same job. Only one of them is findable. We don’t think a budget line should decide which.
Service times someone can find on a Saturday night. Sermons that don’t disappear. A first-time visitor who knows where to park, what to wear, and what happens to their four-year-old before they leave the house.
Support raising is storytelling under pressure. You need a page you can drop into a text message that makes a supporter feel the work and gives them somewhere to click. If you serve in a sensitive place, we build for that.
Pregnancy centers, rescue missions, recovery homes, Christian schools, food ministries. Donors decide fast. A site that looks improvised makes them wonder what else is improvised. Yours won’t.
Registration, dates, and the photos parents actually check before they sign anything.
Nine people and a rented room is a completely normal starting point.
Admissions, calendars, and a site that reassures parents at first glance.
Not themes on a shelf. Seven conversion-shaped architectures — church, mission, mercy, school, camp, plant, or a sequence built on your own verbs. Each card opens a full live site: Wildfire Kenya for missions and signature sequences, and a complete example ministry website for the rest — click through every page.
We pick the architecture from what you send us — your current site, a social page, or a short brief — then build only from your words and photos. After launch we keep turning the knobs. Same $199 a year; no tier upgrades.
Why “Barnabas”
Every ministry you’ve ever admired had a Barnabas somewhere in it. Someone who made the work possible and never needed it to be about them.
We’re named after the man who went and found Saul. Who vouched for him when the whole church was still afraid of him. Who steadied Antioch, and who took John Mark when everyone else wrote him off. That’s the job we signed up for: your story leads, and we build the thing that carries it.
The handoff
Not a folder of photos. Not a content inventory. Not a login you’d have to go find. We pull everything off your existing site automatically: your pages, your sermon archive, your photos, your staff, your service times, your events. Hundreds of pages, twenty years of media, doesn’t matter. It’s a link, and then it’s done.
If you don’t have a website at all (a Facebook page, a PDF someone made in 2014, nothing) that’s a completely normal starting point, and we’ll tell you exactly what to send instead.
The reason ministry websites never get finished isn’t the design. It’s the six weeks of somebody chasing staff bios. We removed that stage from your plate.
Your current web address, however out of date. That’s the hard part done.
Pages, sermons, photos, staff, service times, events. Automatically. No export, no login, no folder to assemble.
Designed, written, and engineered. You see it finished before you owe us anything.
Because it is. Typography selected for your ministry, a layout built around what you actually do, your own photographs used the way a good designer would use them. Nothing pulled off a shelf, nothing that shows up on another church’s website next month.
The give button, the plan-your-visit path, the sermon archive, the way it behaves in one hand on a phone in a parking lot. Every interaction designed around what your people are actually trying to do.
Loads before they give up: about a second on a mid-range phone over cell service. Passes all three Core Web Vitals, built to WCAG 2.1 AA. We measure yours the week we launch and hand you the numbers so you can check us.
A visitor on a bad connection outside your building at 9:40 on a Saturday night either finds your service time or gives up. That’s the whole reason any of this matters. Don’t take our word for it. Paste this page into PageSpeed Insights. We’ll wait.
Speed
Ask anyone who’s been through a website project at a ministry. It takes eight months. Not because designing a website takes eight months, but because of everything around it. Waiting on a proposal. Waiting for someone to gather photos. A committee meeting. A summer. Most ministries never finish. They just quietly stop.
We got rid of the waiting. Not by cutting the work, but by building a system where the slow parts aren’t slow anymore. You’ll get more done on your website this month than most churches manage in a year.
The honest answer to “how is that $199?”
Most of what an agency bills you for isn’t design. It’s the machinery around design: transcribing, drafting, redrafting, resizing images, wiring pages, writing metadata, testing, fixing. We built a system where AI handles that part, under our direction, in minutes.
What it doesn’t do is decide anything. A person reads what you wrote about your ministry and decides what your homepage has to say. A person chooses which of your images earns the top of the page. A person approves every page before it goes anywhere near your domain. We’re not cheap because the work is worth less. We’re cheap because the slow part stopped being slow.
Being findable used to mean one thing. It now means three, and most ministry websites are only built for one.
Proper technical SEO and structured data, so Google can read your service times, events, and locations. That list is half your website and half your Google Business Profile. We do both. Most ministry web shops do neither.
More people don’t search anymore; they ask. “Find me a church near downtown with a Wednesday youth program.” We build every site to be readable and quotable by generative engines. We can’t promise you’ll show up in an answer; nobody honest can. We can promise your site isn’t the reason you don’t.
When a member drops your link into a group text, it should render as a real preview with a real photo and a real headline, not a naked URL. Every page gets proper share cards, because the most valuable traffic you’ll ever get is one person handing your ministry to another.
We’ll send you the six questions worth asking, what each answer means, and the three things that are usually the reason you’re not in the list. Just an email address. No call, no pitch.
The part that stays after we go
Most ministries have been burned by this. Someone built you a website, then disappeared. Now changing the Christmas Eve service time means digging up an email address from three years ago and hoping.
Agencies solve that by billing you. We solved it by building Barnabas, the app your site comes with. Service times. Events. Sermons. Staff. Photos. The announcement banner. About a minute to learn, works from your phone in the church office, and there is no charge for using it. Not per change, not per month, not ever.
We’re still here when you need us. You just won’t need us for this.
We build the whole site first. A private link lands in your inbox with your own photographs in it, before you’ve paid a dollar. Click anything that’s wrong, leave a note on it, and we fix it and send it back.
And if it’s never right, if you look at what we made and it isn’t your ministry, we don’t launch it and you don’t pay.
The process
No discovery call. No scheduling link. The whole thing runs on forms, email, and a preview link. You can do your part at eleven at night after the kids are down.
Seven questions and your current web address. That’s the only thing on your plate today.
We pull everything off your existing site automatically. No login, no export, no folder to assemble.
One questionnaire, whenever you want, with a save button. Not “what pages do you want” but what needs to happen.
Days, not months. A private link to the finished site. Click anything that’s wrong and leave a note right on it.
We launch, register the domain in your ministry’s name, and send your Barnabas videos. The $199 is the first money that changes hands.
That’s the price.
That’s $16.58 a month, less than one month on a church platform. Not a starter tier. Not an introductory rate. This is the whole product.
Never charged: build fees · setup fees · migration fees · per-page fees · per-change fees · tier upgrades · cancellation fees
If $199 is genuinely out of reach, tell us. We work these out one at a time, and the site you get is exactly the same site.
We’ll send one page: what’s included, what it costs, what we need from you, who owns what, and what happens if we ever go away. Written for people who weren’t on this website.
Don’t take the claim. Open the sites. The long version of how one of them got rebuilt is on the case study.
Yes. Design, writing, development, launch, your domain, hosting, and the Barnabas app are all in the $199. There is no build fee, no setup fee, no per-page fee, no per-change fee, and no cancellation fee. The rate is locked through 2029.
We start from high-end architectures shaped for churches, missions, schools, camps, plants, and mercy ministries — then we optimize each one around your words, photos, and conversion paths. Every architecture has a live example you can open. Mission Field and Signature Sequence open Wildfire Kenya, a site we built. Nothing pulled off a shelf shows up on another church’s site next month.
Seven questions and your current web address. We pull your pages, sermons, photos, staff, service times, and events off your existing site automatically, so there is no folder to assemble and no login to hand over.
No. A Facebook page, an old PDF, or nothing at all is a completely normal starting point. Tell us that on the form and we will send you the short list of what to send instead.
After you have seen the finished site. We build it first and send you a private link. You get two rounds of notes, and if it is never right we do not launch it and you do not pay.
You do. We register it in your ministry’s name, not ours. If you ever leave, we transfer it wherever you say, and there is no exit fee.
In Barnabas, the app your site comes with. Service times, events, sermons, staff, photos, and the announcement banner, from your phone. It takes about a minute to learn, and there is no charge for using it.
Days, not months. The whole process runs on a form, an email, and a preview link, with no discovery call and no scheduling link.
Tell us. We work those out one at a time, and the site you get is exactly the same site.
Six months from now
Findable on Google. Clear to first-time visitors. Easy to update from your phone. Live in days, for $199 a year.
It starts with a short form. No call, no calendar invite. Nothing is due until you’ve seen the finished site.
One timing note: Christmas Eve and Easter are the two biggest days your website will have all year. We work in days, not months, so if one of those is coming, there’s still time.
